The Northern Michigan University hockey team topped the Ferris State Bulldogs, 5-2, Saturday night, heading into the holiday break with an 11-9-0 record. Click the above headline for details. (NMU Photo)
The Escanaba High School hockey team had to fight past a hot goaltender to post a 5-2 win over Rochester United Friday night at the Wells Sports Complex. Freshman Nolan Bink scored three goals for a hat trick, and fellow ninth grader Graham Johnson lit the lamp. Click the above headline for photos, videos, and interviews.
The North Central High School boys basketball team wrapped up a perfect 2-0 opening week by dominating the Rapid River Rockets, 63-36, Thursday night in Powers. Hunter Robinson led the Jets with 20 points, countering the 20 put up by Rockets center Kodey Goldi. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
Northern Michigan University senior and former Ewen-Trout Creek standout Jake Witt declared for the National Football League Draft on Thursday. The 6-foot-7, 280-pound tight end/lineman knows it's a long shot, but is willing to take that shot with hopes of someday playing on Sundays. Click the above headline to hear our interview with Witt.
The Bay College women's basketball team was outscored 25-4 during an eigt minute stretch of the first half and could not recover, losing to the Kalamazoo Valley Cougars, 63-46,, Tianna Wednesday night at the Bay College Gym. It was Bay's first game in 17 days. Click the above headline for details, photos, video highlights, and interviews.
The Escanaba High School hockey team scored six straight goals after a scoreless 25 minutes of play, and beat the Negaunee Miners, 6-0, Tuesday night, in a game that more resembled a football game than a hockey game. Three different Eskymos scored two goals apiece in the win. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The Bay College Norse men's basketball team suffered its first loss of the season on Saturday, falling to Dakota County (MInn.) Technical College, 69-67, in an intense game in Minnesota. Click the above headline for details, pictures, videos, and interviews.
The Northern Michigan University Wildcats and Michigan Tech University Huskies played another tight hockey game Saturday night before a sell-out crwod. But unlike Friday's NMU victory, it was Tech that came through, posting a 3-1 win. Click the above headline for details.
In a sold-out Berry Events Center seeing an attendance of 4,263, the Wildcats got a thrilling 4-3 OT victory over the Michigan Tech Huskies. Alex Frye got the game-winning tally with 1:20 on the clock, a shorthanded breakaway score. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School hockey team bounced back from Tuesday night's rough performance against Marquette by rolling past the Painesdale-Jeffers Jets, 9-4, Friday night at the Wells Sports Complex. Click the above headline to read game details.
After a slow start in the first half, the NMU men's basketball team outscored the Purdue Northwest Pride 55-37 in the second half en route to an 85-77 win on Thursday to open GLIAC competition. Click the above headline for details. (NMU Photo)
Makaylee Kuhn (19 points) and Taya Stevenson (15 points) combined for over half of the Wildcats' scoring production in a 64-48 GLIAC-opening win at Purdue Northwest on Thursday. It broke NMU's slump which saw them lose three of their last four. Click the above headline for details, and to hear post-game and player spotight interviews.
The Marquette Redmen scored seven goals in the first period, and after the Escanaba Eskymos scored three times, regained momentum in the third period to post an 11-3 win Tuesday night at the Wells Sports Complex. The game ended on the mercy rule with 3:49 to play. Click the above headline to see photos and videos, and for interviews.
Michigan Tech Athletic Director Suzanne Sanregret announced Tuesday (Nov. 29) that Head Football Coach Steve Olson's contract has not been renewed. Associate Head Coach and Offensive Coordinator Dan Mettlach has been named the new Head Coach of the Huskies, effective immediately. Click the above headline for more details.
The Bay College Norse men's basketball team built a 22-point lead over the Vermillion (Minn.) College Ironhawks on Sunday, and coasted to a 66-60 win on the final day of the Lindquist Classic in Irownood. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Northern Michigan University men's basketball tesm stunned the 14th-ranked Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs Sunday afternoon, with three players scoring over 20 points each, 90-76, in Duluth. Click the above headline for details, and to hear post-game comments from Coach Matt Majkrzak, and player spotlight interviews. (UMD Photo)
The Bay College Norse men's basketball team had six players score in double figures Saturday and dominated the Hibbing (Minn.) Community College Cardinals, 102-54, Saturday night in Ironwood. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Northern Michigan University women's basketball team welcomed St. Cloud State to the Berry Events Center for a non-conference matchup on Saturady. The Wildcats fought hard but would eventually fall short in the final seconds, 55-51. This followed a 50-37 loss to Minnesots-Duluth Friday afternoon. Click the above headline for details.
The Gogebic Community College Samsons men's basketball team shook off a sluggish start and posted a 50-46 win over the Vermillion (Minn.) Ironhawks Saturday night in Ironwood. Click the above headline to see photos and videos from the game.
The Negaunee Miners football team battled Grand Rapids West Catholic to a 14-14 draw in the third quarter before the Falcons exploded to beat the Miners, 59-14, in the Division Six state championship game on Friday. Click the above heaadline for details.
Not much went right for the Northern Michigan University women's basketball team on Friday as the Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs led from start to finish in posting a 50-37 win. The Wildcats trailed by as many as 26 points in the fourth quarter before outscoring the Bulldogs' reserve players, 15-2, to finish the game. Click the above headline for details.
The 2022 Upper Peninsula high school football playoffs have come to an end. Click the above headline for all of the scores.
Sawyer LaMarch scored the game-winning goal in the third period, and his cousin, Brayden Martineau, had the other two goals as the Escanaba Eskymos erased a 2-0 deficit to edge the Kingsford Flivvers, 3-2, Tuesday nigt in Iron Mountain. Click the above headline for details, photos, video highlights, and player/coach radio interveiws.
The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association has released its Eight Man All-U.P. teams. The voting was done last week by a panel of 16 reporters from around the U.P. at a meeting in Marquette, before the North Central Jets won the state championship.
The Northern Michigan University women's basketball team took to the Berry Events Center hardwood for the first time on the 2022-23 season, besting the Finlandia Lions 76-49 on Tuesday. Click the above headline for details, and hear interviews. (NMU Photo)
The No.18 ranked Northern Michigan women's wrestling team competed at Albion College on Sunday, seeing three individual victories and finishing in third place of 13 competing teams. Click the above headline for details. (NMU Photo)
The North Central Jets completed a remarkable "three-peat" on Saturday with yet another dominating performance in the MHSAA Division Two Eight Man state championsip game, racing to a 35-0 lead and rolling over the Mendon Hornets, 66-26, at the Superior Dome. Click the above headline for details, and to listen to the radio replay of the game.
The Negaunee High School football team pulled out a gutsy 13-12 victory over Reed City in the MHSAA Division Six state semifinals Saturday afternoon in Gaylord. The Miners advance to the state championship game at Detroit's Ford Field. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College women's basketball team split a weekend series for the third time this season, this time in far northern Minnesota. The Norse lost Friday night to Rainy River (Minn.), 60-59, but bounced back on Saturday to beat Itasca (Minn.), 57-36. Click the above headline to see details, photos, videos, and to hear interviews.
AJ Vanderbeck scored his 49th and 50th career goals, including the overtime game-winner, as the Northern Michigan University Wildcats stunned 8th-ranked Minnesota State, 3-2, Saturday night in Mankato. Click the above headline for details. (NMU Photo)
